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- Tracy Charlton | IWC List
< Back Tracy Charlton tkcharlton@gmail.com Tracy grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. After working in the film industry for several years, she moved to New York City where she got her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her screenplay RAISED UP, which was one of the winners of the Meryl Streep funded Writers Lab, was based on a story she did in journalism school. Her background as a journalist informs her work as screenwriter in terms of both the intense research she does for every project, but also in her interest in a wide variety of stories. Her original screenplay THE BUILDING was made into a movie that aired in Canada. And she did an uncredited rewrite on LEONIE, which starred Emily Mortimer and aired in the U.S. and Japan. She currently lives in Marin County with her son and a dog named Pickles. Honors & Awards WeScreenplay Short Script Lab - Winner - THE EARTH ANSWERS -- 2024 Austin Film Festival - Second Rounder - CHASING SHAKESPEARE and NANO -- 2024 Writers Lab sponsored by Meryl Streep - Winner - RAISED UP -- 2015 Non-WGA Female, Over 50 BIG LIFE (Feature/rom-com - MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING meets SILICON VALLEY ) When a professional tennis player and a San Francisco tech nerd fall in love, they must negotiate their dueling ambitions and her eccentric Romanian family in order to find happiness. CHASING SHAKESPEARE (Feature; YA Action-Adventure) When a teenage girl's father disappears amid accusations that he stole one of the Shakespeare's First Folios, she must find him and retrieve the Folio by solving a series of Shakespeare-themed clues he left behind. THE EARTH ANSWERS (Short; thriller) When a young man gets a tattoo from a mysterious tattoo artist his life takes a turn for the worse. Character-driven, Female-centric, YA, Action, Romantic Comedy Female, Over 50 unrepped
- Jen Bosworth-Ramirez | IWC List
< Back Jen Bosworth-Ramirez jenbosworthramirez@gmail.com http://www.jenbosworthramirez.com Coverfly Jen Bosworth-Ramirez is a Latina tv/feature writer based in Los Angeles and Chicago. She's a former assistant to Nic Cage-turned therapist for felons-turned writer. The daughter of a fierce Colombian immigrant mom and car thief-turned used car salesman father, Jen writes dark comedies in the adult space and heartfelt, mental health focused television for bridge aged kids. She currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Chicago where she lives with her shy husband and their recalcitrant dog, Doris. Honors & Awards Current Sesame Workshop Writer's Room Fellow Current Unlock Her Potential Mentee of Stacy Traub, Writer/Showrunner (Black Ish, Daisy Jones, The Real O'Neals) non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Latinx, 40+ MAN)DATED 30 min dark, workplace comedy - Breaking Bad x Community When a burnt out therapist, drowning in student debt, is assigned a fresh out of prison, charming, drug kingpin as her new client, she finds herself breaking rules, pushing boundaries, and falling head over heels for a guy whose primary love language is murder. LINDA & CO. 11 minute animated heartfelt comedy for bridge age kids When Linda Romero, a brilliant visual artist, and the daughter of Colombian immigrant parents begins having panic attacks, she learns it's okay to reach out for help. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Coming-of-Age, Children's, Animation, Snarky Female, BIPOC, Latinx, 40+ unrepped
- Steven Goldman | IWC List
< Back Steven Goldman sgoldmannn@aol.com Matthew Wallerstein; The Wallerstein Group: mbw@walersteingroup.com Steven Goldman is an internationally syndicated film journalist based in Los Angeles. His UK credits include: Time Out, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, BBC Children's Television, The Evening Standard and British Esquire. In the US, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Premiere, Interview and Artsmeme. He is the writer of two animated TV specials for Film Roman/HandMade Films - based on the Eloise books by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight, featuring the voices of Tim Curry and Lynn Redgrave. He has provided promotional materials for NBCUni, Sony, MGM, Paramount, Amblin, Disney, STX, Warner Bros, Imax, Lionsgate, and Apple TV. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America’s Animation Caucus, The IWC, and The Critics Choice Association. non-WGA Male, 55+ STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT (TV Comedy; Live Action/Animated) Two grapes sitting on a fruit plate wrestle with the petty dramas of daily life, the limitations of their dreams & aspirations, and their own mortality - living in the shadow of an unpredictable and lethal entity, The Hand. HOWDY DOODY TIME (Feature; Caper Comedy) A well-meaning minion's life goes to hell when he gets his best friend a job as his assistant. But as he struggles to get rid of him, neither is aware that the workplace itself is a front for an international forgery ring. TRANSITIONAL BOB (Animated; Limited Series) An eccentric drifter on the run from the law sets off to find his long lost brother, only to discover the man he’s looking for is the same man who’s pursuing him and the hitchhiker he’s picked up along the way may be planning to eat him. IWC BEST OF 2024 Character-driven, Children's, Animation, Limited Series, Dark Male, 55+ unrepped
- Megan and Kelly Anelons | IWC List
< Back Megan and Kelly Anelons megananelons@gmail.com Megan Anelons writes with her mom, Kelly, as one of Hollywood’s only mother/daughter writing teams. Together, they tell multi-generational, female-driven stories for TV and features and are producing a sitcom about their partnership. They also read and review YA and romance novels on their social media platforms, which have garnered over 40,000 followers. Megan is a writer and producer with a Major in Film and a Minor in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She has worked at Atlas Entertainment and as a creative executive with Lynda Obst (INTERSTELLAR, HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS) at Sony. When she's not reading, writing, or crying over animation (Arcane), she spends an inordinate amount of time on Duolingo trying to impress that damn owl. Honors & Awards Imagine Impact x Netflix - Finalist - A.K.A. - 2021 StoryPros - Winner/Best Comedy Script - BEST LAID PLANS - 2020 Nashville Film Festival - Winner/Best Comedy Script - LIFE'S A BEAUT - 2019 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+ A.K.A. Action comedy - GROSS POINTE BLANK meets SPY When her cover is blown, the CIA’s top operative trades in her high-stakes lifestyle to hide out in the one place she swore she’d never return…the antiquated New England island where she was born. Can she protect her eccentric, combative family or will she kill them herself? BEST LAID PLANS Dramedy - HACKS meets HOPE SPRINGS When her husband of 40 years dies, a repressed widow resolves to find out what she’s been missing. She risks her reputation and relationships with her co-dependent daughter and meddling BFF to help an irreverent young lesbian who’s trying to save Boston’s oldest sex shop. LIFE'S A BEAUT Dramedy - WE'RE THE MILLERS meets THE WAY WAY BACK A straitlaced young woman explores a crooked branch of her family tree when she teams up with a grifting grandma to track down a kidney donor for her rebellious younger sister. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Romantic, Coming-of-Age, Bittersweet, Slapstick, Snarky Female, LGBTQ+ unrepped
- Gina DeAngelis | IWC List
< Back Gina DeAngelis deangelis.gina.m@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2391671/ The Black List Gina DeAngelis is the youngest of ten kids who all talked at once. She started writing a book at age 8 just to get a word in, little expecting that one day, she’d have published 32 others. After a year of high school in Australia -- as far from home as she could physically get -- she studied acting, playwriting, and directing alongside history for her B.A. A professional writer for 20+ years, she holds Master’s degrees in both history and screenwriting, and won an Emmy Award (two nominations) for historical drama. In Gina’s spec features, her unlikely heroes suffer from estrangement and isolation before building diverse found families. Even her darkest stories are ultimately life-affirming. Recent releases include STORIES OF WAR, a collection of 13 commissioned documentary shorts; the indie feature EVERYTHING FUN YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO IN ALEDO, ILLINOIS, which premiered in Los Angeles in 2024, and the horror short ASK FOR HELP, which DeAngelis also directed. Her short film adaptation of the Pamela Painter story DOORS recently completed post-production and will be in festivals in 2025. DeAngelis’s work has been consistently honored by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, CineStory, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, the Austin Film Festival, Stowe Story Labs, and others. Her work has also appeared on PBS and was performed live for Queen Elizabeth II. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowships - THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH - 2024 Winner, Virginia Screenwriting Competition - THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH - 2024 Finalist, Film Pipeline Short Script Competition - DOORS - 2023 non-WGA Female, 40+ THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH (Horror/supernatural thriller - think THE WITCH, MAMÁ, THE WIND) When her widowed mother vanishes during a blizzard in 1850s Virginia, a biracial teenager must defend herself, her vulnerable little sister, and their isolated farm against their slaveholding uncle and the torments of an angry spirit. THE LITANY OF THE SAINTS (Murder mystery/thriller - THE NAME OF THE ROSE, DOUBT) When a devout young nun suspects that the death of her mother-superior was no accident, she must identify which of her sisters is the murderer before she becomes the next victim -- while suppressing her attraction to the violent young man assigned to protect her. IF THESE WALLS COULD SHUT UP (Horror-comedy - think NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, THE HAUNTED MANSION) When a reluctant inheritor decides to sell a tourist-trap re-enactment village, the site's ghosts mount a dangerous campaign of resistance, unless she can solve a 200-year-old mystery in one night. Female-centric, Thriller, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age Female, 40+ unrepped
- Lisanne Sartor | IWC List
< Back Lisanne Sartor lisanne.sartor@me.com http://lisannesartor.com Lisanne Sartor gained early notoriety for: 1) Calling her fourth-grade teacher a female chauvinist for not letting girls play kickball (a clear outrage). 2) Teaching sex-ed seminars to her fifth-grade cohorts using Judy Blum’s FOREVER (how proud were her parents? Surprisingly, not very). 3) Calling her eighth-grade teacher a bitch for unfairly penalizing another student (While her principal shared her opinion, he told her she should keep such opinions to herself. Lesson not learned). Sartor’s outspoken nature led her to become a Los Angeles DGA assistant director (film and TV set middle management). After seven years, she had a bad back, nerve damage in her feet, and a Biblical appreciation for caffeine. She quit to write and direct. She has a UCLA Screenwriting MFA and has participated in such prestigious residencies and programs as Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Storyknife, the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, and the WGA Feature Writers Access Program. She’s won awards like the Samuel Goldwyn, the Script Pipeline First Look Project, and the Shore Scripts Feature Contest and has had a screenplay made into a Lifetime MOW. She’s also written and directed five award-winning short films that have screened in hundreds of worldwide festivals like Telluride and Cannes. She hones her writing skills by teaching at UCLA, The CineStory Foundation, Stephens, AFI, and Disney. She never looks back. non-WGA Female, 40+ SIX LETTER WORD (Feature Drama) A mom’s struggle to connect with her autistic son, repair her fraught relationship with her estranged mother, and navigate her son’s diagnosis with the help of a troubled neuropsychologist force her to come to terms with her own autism. FLATLANDER (Feature Thriller) A woman returns home to Vermont with her daughter to start anew following a separation from her adulterous husband, but a community member harboring decades-old resentment begins torturing her to enact revenge for a past loss. TESTED (Dramedy Pilot) After her husband suffers financial problems, a minister’s wife is forced to take a job notifying people they’ve been exposed to STDs. Though her first case starts out as straightforward gonorrhea notifications, she soon discovers that the case has spread like wildfire and the flames are burning down her front door. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Coming-of-Age, Dark Female, 40+ unrepped
- Eugene Ramos | IWC List
< Back Eugene Ramos Agent: Brant Rose/Toochis Rose, Brant Rose Agency - brose@brantroseagency.com / trose@brantroseagency.com 323-460-6464 Coverfly Eugene Ramos was born and raised in the Chicago area by immigrants from the Philippines who wanted him to follow their footsteps into the medical field. After devouring countless Shakespeare plays, he instead earned a degree in 16th-century British Literature from Northwestern University to the dismay of his parents. Still wanting to win his parents’ affections, he chose to go to an Ivy League institution for film school and graduated with an MFA in Film from Columbia University. Since then, Eugene has participated in several prestigious programs, including the Humanitas New Voices program, the CAPE New Writers Fellowship, Film Independent’s Project Involve, and the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop. His Isaac Newton romantic-comedy script, NEWTON’S LAWS OF EMOTION, won the Sloan Filmmaker Prize at the Tribeca Film Fest and a Gold Prize in the PAGE Awards. He also co-wrote a number of award-winning shorts, including DANDELION FALL (dir. Lauren Wolkstein) and THEY CHARGE FOR THE SUN (dir. Terence Nance), which was nominated for a Humanitas Prize and garnered a “That’s nice” from his mom. Eugene is currently a staff writer on the Netflix animated series, THE DRAGON PRINCE. Because of his love for the Bard and science fiction, Eugene hopes to one day get a tattoo that says, “The Sci-Fi Shakespeare Guy.” (He won’t say where, but it won’t be anywhere his parents can see.) Honors & Awards Published Short Story - THE CHEEZHEAD (aka THE FANTASY FOOTBALL FAN'S TALE) - 2022 Nomination for Best Writing (Podcasts), The Webby Awards - THE ONLY PODCAST LEFT - 2020 The CAPE List - I’M NOT PHIL - 2019 non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander, Multi-Ethnic, 40+ NEWTON’S LAWS OF EMOTION (Romantic comedy - SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE meets THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING) When a young Isaac Newton falls for a headstrong princess, he seeks to understand the principles of love using a new kind of mathematics. After many trials and errors, however, Newton realizes that falling in love isn't a matter of calculus, it's chemistry. SONS OF WITCHES (One-hour urban fantasy drama - SUPERNATURAL meets KUNG FU) A trio of Asian-American men – all sons of witches – must take over the family business of fighting supernatural evil after their mothers are murdered. Unfortunately, they have no powers … except for Cal, a schizophrenic who may be the first male witch in centuries. A COVEN OF THIEVES ( One-hour urban fantasy drama - CHARMED meets POINT BREAK) A rock band of witches recruits a new singer to help them steal supernatural artifacts from those who would use them for nefarious purposes. BIPOC-centric, Science, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History, Animation, Magical Realism Male, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander, Multi-Ethnic, 40+ repped
- Brandy N. Carie | IWC List
< Back Brandy N. Carie brandyncarie@gmail.com http://www.brandyncarie.com Coverfly Brandy N. Carie is a playwright, screenwriter, and director from Minnesota who writes about what happens when nice girls get mad. Her furious abortion-themed horror flick BABY won the 2024 Athena Film Festival Abortion Pipeline Project, was featured on the Dead List, and is a Moonshot Feature Accelerator Semi-Finalist. Carie is a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer and a winner of the 2019 Kennedy Center ACTF Steinberg Playwriting Award and the Sloan/CMU Screenwriting Competition. Her work for the stage often intersects with the digital: her immersive opera THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING: A LOVE STORY was released as an animated short by New Opera West, and her collection of short puppet plays adapting Jane Austen’s oeuvre, ABRUPTLY, AUSTEN, was produced with D.T. Burns as a web series. Carie’s playwriting has been supported by numerous theaters and residencies, including Barter Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the Edward Albee Foundation. Recently, Carie’s apocalyptic stage play TOMORROW GAME was published by Samuel French. MFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Honors & Awards Winner, Athena Abortion Pipeline Project - BABY - 2024 Official Selection, Dead List - BABY - 2024 First Place, Sloan/CMU Screenplay Competition - LOVE, GENOME - 2019 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+ BABY Body Horror Feature - MISERY meets MIDSOMMAR While recovering at an isolated cabin, a traumatized teacher desperately pursues an abortion amidst paranoia that her boyfriend is trying to trap her. When suspicion turns to certainty she becomes reckless, aiming to regain control of her body — or die trying. SPIDER HOUSE!!! Body Horror Feature / Creature Feature - ARACHNOPHOBIA meets THE FLY When a cash strapped couple buys a spider-infested fixer-upper, they take extreme measures to save the house that is trying to destroy them. Will the affordable housing keep these Millennials together? Or will the spiders tear them apart? LEGEND OF A WEIRD GIRL Horror Dramedy / hour long - CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA meets MIDNIGHT MASS After a sheltered Lutheran purity girl is bitten by a werewolf, she tries to figure out if her symptoms are puberty or lycanthropy, desperate to control her body before it derails her quest to upgrade her nerdy image. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Thriller, Horror, Dark Female, LGBTQ+ unrepped
- Lisa Kors | IWC List
< Back Lisa Kors lisamkors@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1131495/ A daughter of immigrants, Lisa Kors was raised near Yonkers, NY. Her love of storytelling was shaped by a dad who played handball with FBI guys and a social worker mom whose clients kept finding dead bodies on the job. (Yonkers was a big garbage mafia town back then, so maybe not so weird…?) By second grade, Lisa could tell a story that would scare the bejesus out of her friends. To this day, Lisa likes writing stories about good people making bad choices for excellent reasons. She is also an excellent parallel parker. Honors & Awards Coverfly Top 2% of Thriller/Horror TV Pilots - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, We Screenplay Diverse Voices Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 non-WGA Female, Non-binary THE DRAGON OF HANDALE TV, Drama Based on a popular British novel, The Dragon of Handale is a medieval whodunnit that follows a badass young widow who investigates a gruesome series of murders at the convent where bad nuns are sent to be punished. PRINCES' HOSPITAL TV, Drama (GREY'S ANATOMY x HOMELAND) Inspired by a real hospital in Saudi Arabia, PRINCES' HOSPITAL is a one-hour drama that follows the adventures of the extravagantly paid ex-pat doctors and nurses who treat only the 20,000 members of the royal family. Money, rules and secrets abound. FREAKY FURDAY Feature, Comedy Cat-astophe ensues when a pampered show dog and a scrappy feral cat switch bodies right before a high-stakes competition. Female-centric, Medical, Crime, Thriller, Procedural, Psychological, Horror, International Female, Non-binary unrepped
- Steve Holbert | IWC List
< Back Steve Holbert Steveisholbert@gmail.com Coverfly Steve comes from a long line of carneys and sex workers. He grew up in the trailer parks of Georgia’s poorest town. He paid the bills by selling food stamps and tombstones. After becoming a first-generation college student, he paid the bills hosting drag shows and doing wedding makeup. Steve moved back to the trailer park when his dad became terminally ill. He was his caregiver until his father died. Then, the state dropped two kids on his porch, and he became a foster parent to his teenage and four-year-old cousins. Now, he is a thirty-year-old grandpa. Growing up, the media always portrayed Appalachian Americans as victims, so Steve makes sure the next generation sees themselves as heroes. Then, life can finally imitate art. He writes hour TV and features that explore bi-ness, using queer teens, horror, and the South. He's had generals with Glen Mazzara, Berlanti Productions, Paramount, and others, and was a writer’s assistant for Heidi Schreck, Evette Vargas, Katie Tabaldi, and AT HOME WITH AMY SEDARIS. When not writing, Steve is an amateur ghost hunter. He volunteers at nursing homes, so has attended over 300 funerals. He was a classical pianist for ten years. If Pokémon were real, he'd be an ice-type gym leader. MFA in Dramatic Writing, NYU, Tisch School Of The Arts. non-WGA Male, LGBTQ+ EM & TOBY VS. THE GULCHES (Feature - WRONG TURN meets SHAMELESS) In this horror remix of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz , a waitress saves her runaway brother from a family of killers and learns the meaning of “home.” SLAY (Hour Drama - MEAN GIRLS meets THE LOST BOYS) A trailer park virgin sneaks off to his first Pride seeking community. But he finds a herd of killer unicorns. SCRAPS (Hour Drama - SWEENEY TODD meets SHAMELESS) A broke foster parent is losing his family’s barbecue shack – until he finds a killer, free meat supply. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Fantasy, Horror, Coming-of-Age, YA, Dark Male, LGBTQ+ unrepped
- Christopher J. Valin | IWC List
< Back Christopher J. Valin christophervalin@gmail.com 951-529-1596 http://www.christophervalin.com Coverfly Christopher J. Valin is a writer, artist, and historian living in the Los Angeles area. In addition to his novels, he’s written and inked for independent comic book companies, written scripts for production companies, and has had numerous short stories published in anthologies such as The Future Chronicles, Beyond the Stars , and Peter David's The Fans Are Buried Tales . His screenplays, teleplays, and stories have won numerous awards and contests, including the BIBA for the first book in the Raptors superhero series, written (as CJ Valin) with Jaime Castle. Christopher received his master's degree with honors in military history, and his first book, Fortune's Favorite: Sir Charles and the Breaking of the Line , is the expansion of his master's thesis on his 5x-great-grandfather, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Douglas. Honors & Awards Winner, Golden Age of Television Pilot Competition - THE NEMESIS - 2010 Winner, Scriptwriters Network Producers Outreach Program - SECRET DISCIPLE - 2000 Second Place, TVWriter.com People's Pilot contest - STAR ACADEMY 3013 - 2016 non-WGA Male, 55+ SIDEKICK: THE RED RAPTOR FILES (Superhero TV Drama Pilot - TITANS meets THE BOYS: GEN V ) The city's greatest hero has disappeared and it's up to his teenage sidekick to find him. But Red Raptor isn't prepared for the challenges he must face when he has to go up against their most dangerous foe without his partner. STAR ACADEMY 3013 (Sci-Fi Half-Hour Comedy Pilot - THE ORVILLE meets LOWER DECKS) The galaxy's best and brightest attend the Star Academy...and so do these guys. They may just experience great adventures some day, if they can survive until graduation. THE NEMESIS (Superhero Half-Hour Comedy Pilot - THE BOYS meets DESPICABLE ME) Alex's day was bad enough when his nemesis, Eaglestar, revealed to his girlfriend that he was a super-villain. But things go from bad to catastrophic when the other members of his evil league of villains decide to kill him for revealing their plan for world domination. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History, YA, Animation, Dark Male, 55+ unrepped
- Saiya Floyd | IWC List
< Back Saiya Floyd saiya.floyd@gmail.com https://saiyafloyd.com Saiya Floyd is a Japanese-American screenwriter. As a kid, she was too shy to talk to people, so she made up stories in her head. She had so much fun that she decided to make this her career and went to study at Boston University. She graduated with a degree in Film and Television with a focus on screenwriting. (She learned to how to talk to people somewhere along the way). In her work, Saiya explores new perspectives in historical, fantasy, and sci-fi stories. Her scripts are dramas, and often female-led. Through heightened worlds, she uncovers traits that make us the most human. She has been a finalist at the Austin Film Festival, a winner at WeScreenplay, and placed in the Launch Pad Top 50. Her short play Five Star First Date was part of Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s NuWorks Festival. When not writing, Saiya practices martial arts, cooks, and dreams of traveling to new places. She is interested in history, folklore, and mythology. non-WGA Female, Asian, Multi-Ethnic THE DEVIL'S BROOD (Historical pilot - VIKINGS meets THE WHITE QUEEN) The ambitious daughter of Henry I must navigate court politics, fight sexist nobles, and defy her own family in order to secure her rightful position as England’s first Queen. A THOUSAND BUTTERFLIES (Historical Action Pilot – LEVERAGE meets WARRIOR) San Francisco, 1925: A headstrong Japanese woman runs afoul of politicians, captains of industry, and gangsters in her quest to pay her father bloody retribution for betraying and abandoning her mother decades earlier. Anthology series inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly . THE TRIDENT EXTRACTION (Sci-fi Feature – ROGUE ONE meets OCEAN'S 11) After her mission to rescue two scientists and their water producing machine goes horribly wrong, a war-weary colonel teams up with the scientists’ grieving daughter to assemble a band of rebels, steal the machine back from an oppressive regime, and save their parched planet. Character-driven, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical/Alternative History Female, Asian, Multi-Ethnic unrepped